Shop
Shop Online
Philip Warren
Shop Online
Next day Click & Collect Free delivery on orders over £100
Home/Provenance/Native breeds & sourcing

Cattle bred for the moor

We specialise in suckled native beef breeds, indigenous British cattle built to survive on moorland rather than in a feedlot. Slow grown, weather wise, and full of flavour.

Indigenous British breeds

Our cattle graze the margins of Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor and the grasslands of the Tamar Valley between them. They are suckled, slow grown, and native to this ground.

These are not feedlot animals. They are reared the slow way, on rough keep, which is what gives the meat its character and the fat its depth.

Image / Galloway cattle, moor edge

The breeds we work with

  • Native BreedRed Devon
  • Native BreedSouth Devon
  • Native BreedGalloway
  • Native BreedDexter
  • Native BreedWelsh Black
  • Native BreedAberdeen Angus
  • Native BreedRed Hereford
  • PlaceTamar Valley
Slow grown, native bred, weather wise. Everything we do begins here.
Image / Cattle grazing the Tamar Valley

Different by design

Because native breeds come in different shapes and sizes and carry more fat, they do not fit a supermarket specification. That is why we exist as a route to market for them.

We buy from our own two farms and from around a hundred independent farmers who rear the same way. If it is not native, slow grown and traceable, it does not reach our counter.

7
Native breeds
~100
Partner farms
Suckled
Slow grown
More fat
Better ageing
Image / Native herd on the moor

It is all connected.

The breed makes the fat, the fat makes the age, the age makes the flavour. See how we age it.